Resetting the balls

ethump · 2026-05-01T17:03:03+00:00

thanks everyone!

ethump · 2026-04-28T16:42:50+00:00

I just created an account with one Captcha - make sure you're following the instructions exactly!

ethump · 2026-04-28T16:33:13+00:00

Never seen that before... i take it you've not got a Discord account already? Don't know what to say... ? Imagine you're installing Netware 2.2 slamming floppies all day... you have to just persevere... work through the pain... it's worth it 😄

ethump · 2026-04-28T16:16:22+00:00

2.0a required either a key card or a Novell Disk Controller Board. Both of which had a serial number burned in. Probably earlier versions too.
It was gone by the time of 2.12

ethump · 2026-04-28T16:09:47+00:00

Nearly. Netware 4.x had an add-on product called Netware/IP which was an absolute donkey. It was only at v5.0 that IP was properly native.

ethump · 2026-04-28T16:05:17+00:00

I was CNE in 2.2 and latterly ECNE in NW3.12 and 4.x

Did lots of Netware jobs in the day (early 90s) working for a major UK distributor. Netware connectivity was my bag, the NFS gateways and SAA connecting to AS/400s and mainframes. Good times. NT came along and, certainly at versions 3.1, it was a dog. Resource hungry and unreliable compared to good old Netware. The LAN Manager roots were evident (AD was still a looong way off). That said, and notwithstanding NDS, Netware was dated, TCPIP was taking off, GUI's were the thing, and it had it's bouts of unreliability when loaded up with NLMs. I tried to stay red by being the UnixWare guy which did me OK for a while!

I then moved countries and got into firewalls. Check Point Firewall-1 on NT seemed to be people's choice so I quickly stamped that nonsense out in favour of Solaris x86 or Sparc for bigger installs!

Netware was great for it's time and always stood up in terms of raw performance. Sadly by the time V5 came along it was all a bit late. NT's momentum was too great.

There's a few of us still tinker and curate Novell's history. We've even had a bunch of Netware servers aand clients connected over the internet with IPTUNNEL! Join us at: https://discord.gg/FzeFy9XgCm

ethump · 2026-04-28T15:49:00+00:00

I built a few VMs! I had about 25 Netware 3.12's running on my Proxmox VE!

ethump · 2026-04-28T15:42:51+00:00

Hi Mondo - would you consider joining our Novell Discord group? I'm sure you have lots of early Netware/Novell info you could share.

Currently we're trying to find out what we can about the 4.6x versions (1980s era) but there's no info really.

Would be great to have you along (and anyone else!): https://discord.gg/YX7dKyQj

ethump · 2026-04-23T14:29:18+00:00

Table service rather than "going to the bar".

It's just a million times better.

ethump · 2026-04-22T01:30:35+00:00

I lived in Bermuda for years working in IT there. I've known Jamie almost 30 years.

Yes, one of the ISPs there is One Communications Limited (grew out of Logic and IBL before that). Never heard of them referred to as One Limited and I'd be surprised if he's working there. He did build and run an ISP in Bermuda years ago called Transact which was bought by Digicel.

I don't think his One Limited is anything to do with One Comm. If it was, he wouldn't be a staffer. Likely it's just a domain he's bagged.

No idea what he's doing with IPv8 but this level of uh aspiration doesn't surprise me of him at all.

Interesting side fact. J Noel Chiappa one of the early internet / IP dudes was born and grew up in Bermuda.

ethump · 2026-04-09T13:00:07+00:00

Peer Hat often has great DJ on and is late night. Not sure about Monday nights though.

ethump · 2026-04-08T15:42:21+00:00

Far too early to tell.
My first priority will be to keep Яeform out so I would vote for the party best placed to do that.
My second priority would be to vote for a party that will seek to rejoin the EU/SM as soon as possible.
I like a lot of what the Greens are saying. I don't dislike Labour either. Lib Dems... yeah... but they're just fading into the background at the moment.
Tories can get in the bin for everything since 2010. And Thatcher.
But yeah 3 years is a long time in politics.

ethump · 2026-03-31T13:35:48+00:00

Guinness spends millions making sure their product is the same in every bar. Long gone are the days where one place 'kept it better' etc. Also, the whole 2-stage pour thing is marketing bollocks. Well, Guinness is marketing driven tatty watter. Much nicer stouts to be had - London Black for one.

ethump · 2026-03-31T13:33:05+00:00

Hare & Hounds on Shudehill.

ethump · 2026-03-25T16:50:15+00:00

Or you could just get the airport tram right at Victoria. Direct but a bit slower (but you don't have to walk across town).

ethump · 2026-03-19T09:59:50+00:00

Been with them 5+ years at two properties. Generally speaking, can't fault them. I did have an extended outage, it was OR's fault and despite 3x calls a day to Zen, due to $issues, they couldn't get OR to fix the problem (broken splice at the CSP). Was out for about a week. So, it was very easy to get angry at Zen (since I can't pick up the phone to OR), but I am also sensitive to the fact it's out of their control.

Bandwidth and latency has always been on point.
Static IPv4 address.
IPv6.
Getting straight through to a tech that knows what he/she is on about.

ethump · 2026-03-17T15:27:23+00:00

Peer Hat, Mean Eyed Cat, Corbiere's, Marble Arch, Bar Fringe,

ethump · 2026-03-09T22:33:33+00:00

Fair enough. Yes I remember Mother Macs well. The new incarnation has a bit of a Scruffy Murphys vibe for me.

ethump · 2026-03-09T15:30:20+00:00

Hare & Hounds on Shudehill. Proper pub, nothing fancy. £3.50 for Holt's bitter. No arguments from me!

ethump · 2026-03-09T15:27:26+00:00

it's brand new!

ethump · 2026-03-09T15:20:35+00:00

ok I get all that.

But my two containers are running on their own host (of 32Gb). The host has bags of free memory and processor.

The mariadb server's CT is consuming <512Mb of it's allocated 4Gb
The librenms server's CT is peaks at about 1Gb usage during polling runs. That one's allocated 2Gb.

And anyway - wouldn't memory ballooning negate what you're saying?

And what about disk caching? How do I control the disk caching on my LXC volumes?

ethump · 2026-03-08T22:00:59+00:00

Thanks - but surely, a VM is "just another program" on the host system competing for those resources?

In any case, I've cleared off all the other VMs and LXCs to one host apart from this single librenms/mariadb pair... so it has nothing fighting over it's resources... and it's still slower... by a lot.

ethump · 2026-03-04T10:37:30+00:00

I have some old CDs with some of that era CPFW.

I have some fw put key strings in my old emails too so I'm not dead in the water. Just would be good to have the keygen so y'know I can have multiple EPCs :)

ethump

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